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The Philippines construction industry will grow by 12.5% in real terms in 2017 and a further 11.7% in 2018 on the back of the government’s ambitious infrastructure development plans, according to a BMI Research market report released last month. For Chinese construction equipment manufacturer SDLG, this growth projection translates into an opportunity to cement its market leadership position in the Philippines, where its cost-effective wheeled loaders and motor graders are in popular demand.

Working in partnership Cemex and the RSPB have transformed 1,000 hectares of former quarry sites into grassland, woodland, heathland and more to provide much needed habitat for some of the UK’s most threatened species. Originally planned to take a decade, the partnership has achieved its target in just eight years, with sites already providing homes to almost 50 species of birds that conservationists have identified as at risk of being lost in the UK.

Mehmet Bastas is owner of a successful Turkish road construction company, which is based in the ancient city of Mardin, south-east of Turkey, about 20km north of the border with Syria.
The ruins of Dara-Anastasiopolis, an East Roman fortress city, are still a symbol of the importance of this area in Late Antiquity. The monastery Zafaran is another historical attraction of Mardin and has its origins dating back over 4,000 years.

The Liebherr Group expects to post record turnover in 2017 - thanks to more favourable market conditions and the German construction and mining equipment manufacturing giant’s continued investment in growth. Speaking at the Liebherr Information Event for the international construction trade press held in Leoben, Austria on 24 October, Stefan Heissler, Member of the Board of Directors of Liebherr-International, said that despite a difficult market environment in 2016, Liebherr Group achieved

Hanson has appointed Paul Lacey as general manager of its packed products business.
He was previously head of sustainability and marketing for Hanson, and has also worked for Ronseal and Crown Paints and has extensive experience in commercial and business development. He will be responsible for sites across the UK, producing packed cementitious products such as Postfix as well as decorative and construction aggregates. “My knowledge of the company and product range, combined with my experience in marketin

DRAP, the coffee table designed by Paolo Ulian for Silvestri Marmi & Co, exhibited in The Italian Stone Theatre as part of the Territory & Design show at Marmomacc, has won the Icon Award.
The project will become the main theme in the new Marmomac 2018 communications campaign for the event, which will be held in Verona, Italy (26-29 September 2018).
The jury had the task of selecting the work whose aesthetic impact and symbolic value was the most representative of those highlighted in The Italian Stone Th

Pan African cement manufacturer, the Dangote Cement, says it has maintained its stronghold in the Nigeria domestic cement market accounting for 65% of the country’s market volume, while other African plants’ volumes went up by 7.5% to 7 million tonnes/year.
The company has in the past months expanded its operations across Africa with the coming onstream of the 1.5million tonnes/year integrated cement plant in Mfila, Republic of Congo.

The European Quality Association for Recycling (EQAR) is for the third time offering the European innovation award for construction material recycling in Europe.

With more than two billion tonnes of mineral wastes the construction sector produces the biggest waste flow in Europe, according to Manfred Wierichs, president of EQAR. However, mineral construction and demolition wastes are valuable resources from which

Mineral Products Association (MPA) members are planning to increase the area of priority habitats on restored sites from 6,000 hectares currently to around 9,000 hectares in coming years, and increase the length of hedgerows planted from 79km to 237km. The area of priority habitat would be equivalent to the size of Cardiff, and hedgerow would stretch from London to Cardiff.

This is the background to the MPA’s ‘Quarries & Nature 2017 – Appreciating Assets’ event, hosted by BBC Radio 4's Farming Today pr